Pot Calls Kettle Black (again)

It’s a good thing I have sworn off posting articles about Sarah Palin. If I were posting anything about her (like everyone else), I’d point out the hypocrisy of her continuously using the phrase “lamestream media” when in fact her only job for the last few years has been working for Fox News (the lamest of the lamestream media). But I’m not posting articles about Palin, so you didn’t read that here.

UPDATE: Palin and the law are not good friends either. Apparently her bus tour has been breaking traffic laws right and left, speeding, running both red lights and stop signs, and making dangerous maneuvers. And the reporters following her are doing even worse, since Palin refuses to release a schedule of where she is going.

This was written by Iron Knee. Posted on Tuesday, June 7, 2011, at 3:53 am. Filed under Hypocrisy. Tagged Fox News, Media, Sarah Palin. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

I just remain thoroughly amazed at te media following this women around. I can understand Fox, but everyone else? If the media truly believes her to be insignificant, why on earth do they continue to validate her, and make more money for her. Truly ironic.

Yup, and I’m just as guilty. Although in my own defense, I am more captivated by the bizarre fact that the media is captivated by her than by Palin herself. I watched a video last week of an interview with her, and could not for the life of me figure out what anyone sees in her or why the media gives her any attention at all.

But they do, and then I report on that giving her even more attention, and the loop continues. Sigh.

This is less about Palin, I think, and more about the mindset of those who would cater to her.

The reasoning behind the attempted Wikipedia edits is astounding. According to this logic, anyone who gets national media attention and who says anything about anything immediately has worthwhile weight to add to the subject, no matter how unsupported or wildly inaccurate it may be. We may as well add “disputed” or “alternate” versions to every bit of history or U.S. policy she gets wrong.

Why couldn’t Palin had just said, “I had a brain freeze and said ‘British’ accidentally”? I don’t understand her constant “doubling down” and refusing ever to admit an error or lack of knowledge. Just like Anthony Wiener who on multiple occasions chastised reporters for asking him questions while he was blatantly lying to them.

If Wiener had just said, “Yep, I totally screwed up,” he would have gained credibility as someone with the balls (sorry) to finally admit up front to an indiscretion. And if Palin had merely said “oops” she would have avoided the extended ridicule. I’ve called my kids by the wrong name (and even called them by my pets’ names), but I don’t follow that up by insisting that my son’s name is Kozmo.

IK, I suspect the reason the media is franticly following Palin is because she is a train wreck,( or bus wreck in this case) in progress and they would love to catch the instance of first contact of crushing metal on tape. But like a drunken teenager on a drinking binge she continually scrapes fender after fender and it just isn’t enough for the media.